IRI Feedback Thread

[Chris Fultz]

Thanks for starting this thread and please feel free to add comments to this or send them to me as a PM. We push for continuous improvement and it is beneficial to know what teams like and where we can do better.

I will try to comment on some of the comments -

Dinner - we try to balance having enough food for everyone with not wasting a lot of extra food (and money). Since we invite anyone who is at the event to stay, we have to set some limits. And, at the end, there was a basket of chicken left on the table for anyone to get "seconds".

Drinks - i will share the comment with the concession crew.

Concessions closing - I will share the comment with the concession crew.

Webcast field view - we had to use a standard video camera for the full field view to be compatible with the video resolution of the field side camera and IRI Live camera. The original plan was a GoPro and we could not get them all to the same resolution in a reliable manner. For 2016, we will have more time to work on the full field camera options to get cleaner edges.

Awards - several years ago we stopped doing robot awards. We found most teams were ready to go as soon as matches ended on Saturday, and didn't want to stay around for another hour of an awards ceremony. Also, by not having any pit judged awards, no students have to spend two days in the pits waiting for judges to come by - they can all be out enjoying the event.